Moisture critical for dryland wheat in SW area
Garden City Experiment Station Supt. Andy Irhart says there is still a lot of good wheat in a sw area but moisture for dry land wheat is critical as subsoil moisture is gone. He notes weather in the next days will determine losses from last Saturday's heat and potential frost. The Kansas weather crop report cites rapid wheat development under good conditions but warns of insect infestations and continuing dry weather.
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Andy Irhart
Kansas
Topeka
Reno
Pratt
Lane and
Ellis
Wheat Nipped Again Headlines Hutchinson News
The Hutchinson News misread the forecast and reported a frost damage scare for wheat that did not occur. Local officials doubted the freeze, and no freezing temperatures materialized across the state, prompting reflections on weather reporting. A Telegram staffer expands tomato growing, predicting a bountiful summer. Band plans in Stevens Park hinge on a new director after school. Memorial Day services will feature the Garden City Manual Band at Valley View Cemetery.
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Hutchinson News
Andy Erhart
Iim
Stevens Park
Garden City Manual
Ob Anderson
Alton Foster
Valley View Cemetery
Indian Editor Will Visit Here
A New Delhi editor, Ratanlal Joshi chief editor of Hindustan, arrives as a Garden City visitor for the week. Host Garden City Co op facilitates his stay under the International Visitor Program to study U.S. agriculture and farm methods, including wheat, cattle, irrigation, and 4 H clubs. Joshi, author of Pravana Ki Gangotri, is drafting books on Indo American ties and on Red China.
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New Delhi
India
Ratanlal Joshi
Hindustan
Hindustan Times
U.S State Department
U.S
Red China
City Officials To Meet Here In Regional Session
Officials from about seven percent of Southwest Kansas cities travel to Garden City for a district session of the League of Kansas Municipalities. The event expects 75 to 100 mayors, councilmen, clerks, managers and others to attend with an afternoon 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. review of federal aid programs and questions. Dinner at 6 p.m. and an evening session follow at Downing's, with eight such meetings planned across the state.
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Kansas Cities
League of Kansas
Garden City
James M. Cowgill
League
Anster
Downing’s
Cowgill
Weather outlook scattered showers and mild nights
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures with a mix of scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Lows near mid to upper fifties and daytime highs likely in the mid to upper sixties with lingering chances of rain on Wednesday.
Juco Officials Clash Over New Schilling Institute
In Topeka a citizens advisory group and lawmakers, including Hutchinson and Kansas Public Junior College Association leaders, spar over the newly authorized Schilling Institute. Critics argue funds and offerings differ from traditional colleges, while supporters say Kansas needs a semi professional, technically oriented center fit within the state system.
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Topeka
Area Vocational Training Center
Schilling Institute
Legislative Council Committee On
Kansas
Schilling
Salina
A. H. Elland
Hutchinson Junior College
Kansas Public Junior College Association
Jack Flint
Legislative Council Education Committee
Henry M. Neely
Ordinances On Agenda For City Commission Meeting
Two pending ordinances move forward at tomorrow’s regular session in City Hall starting at 0 a.m. The measures cover licensing of emergency ambulances and general contractors. Also on the agenda is awarding contracts for fire fighting equipment for a new city truck after a delayed bid clarifications.
Saigon Mine Attack Kills Vietnamese, Wounds Many
Viet Cong detonated a mine on a Saigon street, killing five and wounding 29 to 32, with many casualties from American gunfire as MPs misread the threat. The blast hit near Hai Ba Trung, while B52s bombed targets north of Saigon. Seven suspects were arrested and released. embassy vows aid and compensation to victims.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
U.S. Army
Hai Ba Trung
Senator Dirksen Fractures Hip in Fall at Walter Reed
Senator Everett M. Dirksen Republican leader is hospitalized after fracturing his right hip at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during a routine checkup overnight. The 70 year old was to have surgery and will remain in the hospital for several weeks.
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Washington (Ap
Everett M. Dirksen
Bill
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Dirksen
Senate
Walter Reed
Plans for New Jaco Campus Nearing Completion
Garden City Community Junior College develops a mushroom cloud inspired campus plan to be built at the east edge of Garden City. L. C. Crouch says state and federal approvals are near, with a $480,000 federal grant plus $214 million local bonds funding five main buildings and a student center.
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Garden City
Jaco
Garden City Community Junior College
Finney County
First Securities Co. of
Wichita
Crouch
Man Burns $28 Million In Federal Destruction Room
Washington AP reports Edwin Leforte, head of the Destruction Committee at the Treasury, oversees the burning of worn-out currency in two large furnaces. Bills are audited, shredded, and reduced to smoke and ash after Reserve banks remove them from circulation. Lifespan varies by denomination, with $50s lasting longer.
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Treasury Department
Leforte
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Washington
Control Sought in Arkansas River Phreatophyte Study
Two-state effort led by Fort Hays State College and Colorado State University aims to survey map and control phreatophytes along the Arkansas River flood plain between Pueblo Colorado and Ellinwood Kansas. Salt cedar is the primary target with seven acre feet of water lost per acre annually. the study seeks economical control methods to save water and boost regional economics.
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Lamar
Colo
Arkansas River
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Fort Hays State College
Colorado State University of Fort
Gerald Tomanek
Fort Hays
CSU
H. D. Harrington
Arkansas
Coolidge
Syracuse
U.S. Geological Survey
Bureau of Reclamation
United States
Mao Returns to Public View After Six Month Absence
In Tokyo the 72 year old Mao Zedong reappeared to meet an Albanian government delegation led by Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu. The New China News Agency and Peking radio noted this as Mao’s first public function since November. Lin Piao and Premier Chou En-lai attended the event and Mao hosted a banquet for the visitors.
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Mao Tze-tung
Mehmet Shehu
Communist New China
Mao
Yong
Peking Radio
Red China
Shanghai
China
Peking
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Lin Piao
Central Committee
Communist Pary
New
China News Agency
Lin
Chou En-lai
Concert is an odd disease says Gus Garden
Gus Garden describes a concert as an odd disease that makes everyone sick except the person who has it, framing a peculiar social dilemma about shared euphoria and personal impact.
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Gus Garden
Astronaut to Use Power Pack During Space Walk
NASA described Gemini 9 rehearsals as a complex dual countdown before next Tuesday's flight test. Navy Lt Cmdr Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford will rendezvous with an Agena satellite, with Cernan to spacewalk using a rocket powered backpack and perform multiple experiments during a four hour chase and tethered maneuvers.
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Fla
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Navy
Eugene A. Cernan
Thomas P. Stafford
Stafford
Cernan
AMU
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